ROY ARENELLA’s photographs have been published in Popular Photography, the New York Times, and the Village Voice. He lives in Greenwich, New York.

JESSICA ANYA BLAU’s debut novel, The Summer of Naked Swim Parties (Harper Collins) is available in bookstores now. You can contact her at www.myspace.com/jessicaanyablau.

CHRIS BURSK lives in Langhorne Manor, Pennsylvania. He is the author of several books of poetry, including The Improbable Swervings of Atoms (University of Pittsburgh Press). When he’s not teaching or writing poetry, he spends much of his time chasing his grandchildren.

JAMES CARROLL’s first love was baseball. He pursues his second love (photography) in New York City.

WILLIAM CARTER’s latest book of photographs is Causes and Spirits. More than 150 of his prints are in the permanent collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. He lives in Los Altos Hills, California.

BIRD CUPPS has finished rebuilding the house of William Way and moved home to Wisconsin. She was last seen drooling over the compound miter saws at Lowe’s.

MARY JANE FAY is a photographer living in Helena, Montana.

SUSIE FITZHUGH is a photographer living in Seattle, Washington.

MICHAEL GALINSKY is a photographer, filmmaker, and musician who lives in Brooklyn, New York.

PHILIP HARNDEN lives on Maple Ridge near the Oswegatchie River in northern New York State. He is a poet, gardener, and author of Letting That Go, Keeping This: The Spiritual Pilgrimage of Fritz Eichenberg (Pendle Hill).

RICHARD HEINTZE is a photographer who lives in Menlo Park, California.

JANINE JOHNSON is a photographer living near Side Lake, Minnesota. In her free time, she makes stained-glass windows, plays softball, and goes fishing.

STUART KESTENBAUM is the author of two books of poems, Pilgrimage (Coyote Love Press) and House of Thanksgiving (Deerbrook Editions). He lives in Deer Isle, Maine.

Photographer JEAN-CLAUDE LEJEUNE lives in Bernardston, Massachusetts.

RENEE LERTZMAN moved to Brooklyn, New York, last October to study environmental psychology. Her writing has appeared in The Sun, Speak magazine, Terra Nova, Parabola, and Orion Afield.

JADINA LILIEN’s photographs of the Lakota Nation of South Dakota were recently shown at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. She lives in New York City.

MICHAEL McCOLLY is a teacher of ESL and creative writing in Chicago. For the past year, he has been interviewing people living and working with HIV/AIDS, particularly activists and doctors, both in Asia and in Chicago neighborhoods. He is currently traveling in West Africa and looking for a publisher for a travel narrative about his trips to various countries affected by HIV/AIDS. About his essay in the April 2002 issue, he writes, “I wrote this piece for my father, who made his career not in baseball, but as a coach and a teacher. He has allowed me to share such a personal story about us because he hopes that it may inspire other parents and children to make that trip down the long road of forgiveness.”

ROBERT MEYER’s photographs have been published in Minnesota Monthly, The World & I, and the Los Angeles Times. He lives in Red Wing, Minnesota.

CAROLYN MILLER is a freelance book editor and writer living in San Francisco on the Hyde Street cable-car line. She has published poems in the Georgia Review and Shenandoah, among other magazines. A limited letterpress book of her poems, Constant Lover, was published last year by Protean Press. After Cocteau, a second collection, is due out this year from Sixteen Rivers Press.

D. PATRICK MILLER writes regularly for the online journal Elephant and is the founder of Fearless Books and Fearless Literary Services. His latest book is Living with Miracles: A Common-Sense Guide to A Course in Miracles. He lives in Berkeley, California.

LAURA NOEL dislikes being photographed but endures it so as not to be hypocritical. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

ABIGAIL SEYMOUR is a photographer living in Greensboro, North Carolina.

GARY WALTS lives in Watertown, New York, and is a photographer with the Syracuse Post Standard.